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The American owned Sun is promoting a vigilante as the face for Canada's most multicultural and open city. This is same American owned paper that said crack-smoking Rob Ford should be elected mayor. Toronto - you're better than this. Let's get out the vote for Olivia Chow.

While working in person, many employees still spend the day on video calls with their colleagues—“but an isolated workday doesn’t have to be the new norm,” Natalia Emanuel and Emma Harrington argue:

This is a great day in Canada. We put the run on the MAGA attempt to break up our country. But we need investigations into the role of the White House, the US embassy and Russian BOT farms in trying to destroy our nation. We need to make sure this never happens again. youtube.com/shorts/CsfsV...

CBC leaves out important context: Stelco is owned by U.S.-based Cleveland-Cliffs. An American parent is restructuring its Canadian operations while citing American tariffs. The Canadian job losses are real. So is that context. 🔗 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

🙅 How do you say "no" to stakeholders and stop inflicting a feature factory on your team? Two days of practical answers, grounded in evidence rather than wild promises. CSPO, live online, October 8-9. agilepainrelief.com/courses/cert...

This!

"If Trump is ready to ignore CUSMA and impose unilateral tariffs on us, then maybe we should respond by announcing that the CUSMA digital chapter no longer binds us." I couldn't agree more!

Haha, a more fitting logo for Google.

Hi folks! After far too many years of talking about how software gets built, I finally have a new place to explain what I actually do. 😄 daverooney.dev Legacy code resuscitation, technical excellence coaching, delivery flow improvement, and using AI without handing over the steering wheel.

Recently while implementing a new feature I was reminding of a blog post I published years ago about how I applied Lean thinking to mowing the lawn. After acquiring a riding mower I published another post about how that new "tool" changed my lawn mowing process. open.substack.com/pub/daveroon...

Proud of the Canadian Men's team, playing so well and getting further into the World Cup than any team before! #Canada

DAMMIT!! 😞

When I first learned about XP in 2000, the values of Communication, Feedback and Simplicity were easy to grasp. The 4th value of Courage, though, wasn’t as clear. My recent experiences using LLMs to work with legacy code have helped me understand what Courage actually means! tiny.cc/m025101

Inspired by a talk I gave recently at Agile Ottawa about my experience using LLMs with legacy code, I decided to write about my somewhat different workflow with them. I'm very interested to hear your thoughts about it! daverooneyca.substack.com/p/my-llm-wor...

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live: The Stones The Who David Bowie Lou Reed David Wilcox Tom Cochrane Doug and the Slugs Blue Rodeo B-52s Bryan Adams

The best ceasefire in Ukraine is the one where Russia fucks off back to Russia.

Gents, you know what to do.

This is a really interesting analysis of the "public grocery store" concept: thewalrus.ca/grocery-pric...

It was a 3.7 tremor, centred near Shawville, QC, according to Natural Resources Canada: www.seismescanada.rncan.gc.ca/recent/2026/... Now people will actually have an answer when someone asks, "What's shakin' in Shawville?" 😀 (If you've ever been to Shawville, you'll get the humour of that!)

Well that was fun! We just had a small earth tremor here in Ottawa. Maybe 3.5 to 4.0.

More live coding #Java and #EventSourcing: I dealt with "external" and "parameter" validation (I didn't implement the third type: "internal" validation) of scheduling conflicts for Concerts. I also pondered minimal consistency boundaries. Notes are at: ted.dev/articles/20...

This is how I earned Progressive Victory's endorsement. A bunch of candidates are trying to look progressive right now. I actually am. I've never been afraid to say so. I am progressive because I want a better world. And I know the only way that happens is when we build it together.

“Canada would be wise to break with U.S. foreign policy. Jean Chrétien did that with the war in Iraq, and we were commended for it. Canada is known for diplomacy, and we take pride in having invented peacekeeping. We neither negotiate with nor support terrorists, even if they live next door.”

Are you, or is anybody you know, potentially interested in learning WHY Iran has a nuclear program in the first place? Are you curious as to how the developed it and if they had help in doing so? Have i got the video for you... youtu.be/ZrNNeS31lNg

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

ICYMI, there are still spots available in this great course!

Sigh. McDavid did that “one on three” twice and Binnington saved his arse on the first one. Oh well, great game otherwise. On to 2030!

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Fuck the IOC. Fuck Russia.

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

My good friend Mike Hill isn't on Bluesky (he's on Mastodon at mastodon.social/@GeePawHill), so I'm posting this here to amplify. The link for more information is: www.geepawhill.org/courses/lead...

I was reminded that yesterday was the 4th anniversary of the now-dubbed "Battle of Billings Bridge" when over a thousand of us in Ottawa blockaded convoyers from coming into our city. With the growing far-right, it's a good reminder of how we can still fight back - and win.

Brilliant!

Age verification? I had to fill out a paper slip at the LCBO to buy booze.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

The Board of Peace:

Look, if nobody has the guts to invoke the 25th Amendment, lets give my vet a call. We might need to pass a hat around because the cost is based on weight, but he'll euthanize him quite painlessly and we can get a hand print as a keepsake. For those who actually want to remember anyway.

Honestly if Denmark/E.U./NATO offered to give him a symbolic gold crown and scepter as honorary King of Greenland in lieu of selling it he would accept in a heartbeat and we could just end this insanity

reposting to keep this fresh in your mind as we watch scenes unfolding everyday in MSP

Join me next Monday at @ndcconferences.com NDC London for The Hitchhiker's Guide to Computer Science. This full-day session is suitable for anyone in software development who touches code, whether as an introduction, a refresher or to fill in the gaps. ndclondon.com/workshops/th...

Whether banned or not, individuals and organizations can and should voluntarily stop using X and supporting whatever nightmare it has become.

Murderer!

I hope you all like my proposal for fixing the language around mocks and fakes - new video youtu.be/RvKPOjlQKyM with companion blog post coding-is-like-cooking.info/2026/01/we-n...